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I know this is probably plant specific, but how crucial is "full sun"? I live in a condo complex where my "yard" is a balcony that is shaded half the day. The temps aren't extreme here either. Highs of about 80-85 in the summer and lows about 40-50.
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Jul 23, 2012 23:38
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Picked up a couple plants this weekend. The first is a juniper that is already in a bonsai pot. I got this from a local art festival from a booth run by a local bonsai nursery. Let's see if I can keep this thing alive. The second was a ficus that I intend to grow for bonsai. I currently have it in a gallon pot to grow but I have a question about the trunk. All of the ficus I saw had what looked like multiple trunks coming out. I picked the one that included the best looking, thickest trunk, but there's also three or four other smaller "trunks" coming out of the soil. If I just want a single trunk like I see lots of ficus have, am I supposed to prune the others off?
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Jul 30, 2012 21:29
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I found a local bonsai nursery and bought a trident maple pre-bonsai pictured below. I moved it to a larger pot to let it grow for a while, but after reading some other sites, I think I used the wrong soil. A lot of places say to use free-draining soil that is 40% organic. I used basic potting soil. It does drain freely when I water it, but do I need to repot it again with a more appropriate soil mix?
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Aug 7, 2012 16:34
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I bought three pree-bonsai plants about a month ago, a trident maple, dwarf chinese elm, and a japanese red maple. I placed them all in gallon pots to grow out for a while. The trident maple has really sprouted a lot and seems to be thriving. The elm and the red maple, however seem to not be doing anything at all. They still look very healthy, but there are no new buds anywhere and no real growth. Is it just due to the time of year for those specific plants? Also, will my trident maple lose it's leaves in a month or two despite being only about a foot tall?
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Sep 5, 2012 20:58
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I don't think I'm going be doing much work on them this season. The trunks need to thicken quite a bit. They are all basically twigs with leaves at this point.
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Sep 6, 2012 03:37
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Some of the leaves on my little trident maple seem to be turning brown/drying out. Is this from too much sun? It only gets around 4-5 hours of sun a day on my balcony.
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Sep 28, 2012 16:15
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Shouldn't my trident maple and japanese red maple be losing their leaves right about now? The leaves on the trident hasn't even changed colors yet. They are very young (maybe a foot and a half tall each) and I'm growing them out a bit, but it's fall and I thought they'd lose their leaves despite being so young.
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Oct 16, 2012 21:10
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I posted a while back about how my trident maple hadn't lost its leaves despite being Fall, but it was still early in the season. Well, now it's December and the leaves are still as bright green as ever and it shows no signs of acknowledging the season at all. Is this a sign of a problem? It seems incredibly healthy otherwise and is alomost 2 feet tall or so by now.
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Dec 4, 2012 17:54
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Mr. Soop posted:That is rather odd... If it had died or anything though, the leaves would have long since turned brown and fallen off. But because the Bay area (saw this from your profile) is so temperate, it may simply lead to a longer growing season. My big Trident finally started turning red just over Thanksgiving. What's funny about this is that my condo is literally surrounded by fully grown tridents all of which have lost their leaves. It's like they're looking shamefully over me as I try to grow this seemingly retarded tree.
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Dec 4, 2012 21:30
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So it's still february and my chinese elm, japanse and trident maples are already budding new leaves. We had a 3-4 day period of spring-like weather. Should I be fertilizing at this point?
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Feb 19, 2013 19:52
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Mr. Soop posted:So one of the difficulties in keeping a thread like this active during the fall and winter comes from the fact that there isn't much going on with our trees right now. Speak for yourself. I have a trident maple and a Japansese maple that both lost their leaves sometime around August and have since resprouted this month. Weather around here has been typical fall/early winter too. My trees give no shits about what season it is.
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Nov 22, 2013 19:05
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